Sentences with phrase «than the monster movie»

So we did sort of dial it slightly towards more psychological drama and horror than the monster movie homage that was in the original movie.

At the time, many of us knew nothing about the director other than the fact that he'd made a monster movie that was more than a monster movie but since then, he's become a recognizable name (at least among film fans) and the announcement of a new project brought much joy to my heart.

Of all the ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET... monster movies — ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY, ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE, ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE KILLER, BORIS KARLOFF, and ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN, which is more of a boxing comedy than a monster movie — I love ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN the most.

In between a lot of wasted time waxing poetic about its love of late 70 ′ s thought - provoking sci - fi, LIFE is nothing more than a monster movie masquerading as a better flick.

Consequently, as Mimic 2 reveals itself to be more of a slasher flick than a monster movie, it honours repetition - honed slasher sequel conventions: the body count escalates, the gore and blood increases, the time the creatures spend on - screen mounts, and the characteristics of the bad guy / s evolve.

The interesting thing about the Mist is that as soon as the movie settles, the film becomes so much more than a monster movie.

Not exact matches

This critter was only a little thicker than your thumbnail, however, so Hollywood may want to look elsewhere for its next movie monster.

I have gravely mixed feelings about every movie on Marc Forster's résumé, from «Monster's Ball» to «Stranger Than Fiction» to «The Kite Runner» to the 2008 Bond film «Quantum of Solace,» but the guy is undeniably a stylistic virtuoso with a Michael Winterbottom - like ability to jump around from one genre to another.

The result, which owes more to «60s monster movies than its «80s arcade namesake, is a perfect vehicle for The Rock, assuming he's trying to fashion himself into the Schwarzenegger of the 2010s.

Price's descriptions of these new beasties trigger accompanying vignettes far less entertaining than the framing story, which is rife with horror movie in - jokes, cheesy rubber monster masks, and music by pop - reggae band UB40 -LRB-!).

Some people says videogames are as much art as movies, those people are idiots, videogames are better than movies, Videogames can express art in another dimension, and monster hunter tri expands that dimension to the point of let you even wonder what a hunter is, what a monster is, it makes you forget you are playing, it instead makes you feel you are really chasing monsters and risking your life, you can cry with this game like with no other, heavy rain?

There are just enough «big» beats — a giant wolf leaping at a mid-air helicopter, George using tanks like toys on Michigan Avenue, all the animals climbing the will - always - be-known-as-to-me Sears Tower — to keep fans engaged, but monster movies should do more than just keep you engaged.

Dwayne Johnson finally gets a star to match his size if not charisma in the sometimes gloriously ludicrous «Rampage,» a movie based on a hit arcade game that was literally just larger - than - life monsters bashing buildings.

Comes to seem less a movie than a memory of movies — or, at worst, a commercial Frankenstein's monster, sewn together to fill a perceived gap in the market.

While I appreciate movies about men who are monsters, there has to be more to them than just the one thing.

By focusing so strongly on Cruise's «Nick Morton» character, The Mummy makes its monster little more than a background prop, a mistake future movies probably won't make (bigger stars, like Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp, are confirmed to be playing Frankenstein's monster and the Invisible Man respectively).

That is, how this movie about an oil rig, is better in such a multitude of ways, in telling a story about recent events, than is a movie like «Money Monster», which set out to achieve that, and really didn't.

It's not just kind of latex and a costume; it would be a motion - capture performance of the monster — I can give away maybe not too much by saying there's more than one in our version — and then I would go to Europe, shoot the movie, do scenes with the real actors and I would be able to see the motion - captured monster in real time due to SimulCam, so yes that is our technological VFX paradigm for Frankenstein.»

Upright and less wolf - like than those experienced during the Games, these new zombie - like movie monsters undermine the reality the series has spent years carefully building.

One of the movie's strengths is that it attempts to gain some understanding of the motivations of a character like Goeth, rather than taking the easy route of simply portraying him as an unthinking Nazi monster, and Fiennes is frighteningly convincing in his depiction of a deeply disturbed man who is all too aware of — and haunted by — his own shortcomings.

And he also appears to throw some less - than - subtle shade towards the storytelling ideas of a certain other big monster's recent movie... «We're fundamentally not playing the same game that Gareth Edwards» Godzilla did and most monster movies do, which I'm sort of sick of the notion that a monster movie needs to wait an hour or 40 minutes until the creature shows up,» says Vogt - Roberts.

But perhaps Jason Isaacs would always have been desperate to talk about something other than Monster Family, an animated movie in which he hammily voices Dracula.

The premise involves a shapeshifting monster that stalks its targets until they have sex, passing on the curse to someone else, and though a generation ago, this would seem like a fairly clear - cut AIDS metaphor, Mitchell (The Myth Of The American Sleepover) makes it at once more complicated (for instance, after killing a target, the titular It begins stalking the previous one again) and more primal, a locus for all kinds of sexual and social fears that horror movies tend to express more clearly than any other genre.

After a more than respectable five - week run as the No. 1 movie in America, this weekend the Marvel superhero adventure fell to No. 2, replaced by a different sort of nerd bait: The giant monsters vs. giant robots smash - «em - up...

The film has a more contemporary setting than the last version of the monster movie.

Eye - catching animation and non-stop jokes make this animated monster movie a lot more fun than we expect.

Final Verdict: If you really want a movie that features B Movie monsters chasing paper - thin characters, there are better films than movie that features B Movie monsters chasing paper - thin characters, there are better films than Movie monsters chasing paper - thin characters, there are better films than this.

It was 1954 when Gojira first hit the big screen in Ishiro Honda's now iconic monster movie, made as a reply to the USA dropping two atom - bombs on Japan less than a decade earlier.

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

«Kong: Skull Island» more than delivers the goods for a exhilarating monster movie.

You'd think that The Shape of Water remains too undeniably weird to have any shot at awards, and I think that the stuffy Academy that decided to go with The King's Speech over The Social Network or Black Swan (yep, still bitter) might not have given much more than token nominations for an inter-species romance monster movie, but the Academy has gotten younger and more diverse in the years since then, allowing for some more left of center films to get a boost.

Today brings yet another eclectic collection of movie posters, which feature masked murderers, religious vampire hunters, monster - patrolling detectives, rocking easter bunnies and a more - than - half - naked man tattooed with a variety of brand names.

But it's not a part of the legacy of monster movies that served as more than that, even if John C. Reilly nearly saves the film on his own.

I felt specifically that the spider - monster scene had the gloomy glow of the Silent Hill 4 shopping mall, and the wall - peeling effect (Which I think looked much better and higher quality than the effect of the first movie) inside Jack's Inn reminded me heavily of the ghosts coming through the walls in the forth game too.

The Bottom Line: My favorite pick because it's more a monster movie than a disaster flick, this intriguing tale from 1962 (based on the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, who also penned THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS that spawned VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED on the big screen) begins with a meteor shower that liberally spreads killer crawling plant creatures around the globe — with everyone who has seen the celestial show going permanently blind.

Director Steven Spielberg and director J.J. Abram's nostalgic, monster - mash homage to their own movie - obsessed childhoods, «Super 8» tells the story of a gaggle of»70s kids who accidentally capture something much more unnerving — and deadly — on their Super 8 film than the homegrown zombie movie they've set out to shoot.

There are plenty of cheesy TV movies that have cornered that market, and more than a handful of films that feature a meteor shower as the catalyst for disaster: NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) brings about zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come alive and attack us.

Every larger than life creature feature, from King Kong to Godzilla to Jurassic Park owes a debt to the original The Lost World (1925), the granddaddy of giant monster movies.

It's more a tense movie than frightening one, and the insistence upon maintaining the sense of «is it real or not» mystery necessitates downplaying the pulpiness that would be inherent if it were a straightforward slasher, monster movie or ghost story.

However, when the movie gets underway, she becomes nothing more than a reason for Frankenstein's Monster to redeem his soul and then evolves into your typical damsel in distress figure.

Those expecting something similar to the first movie will be mostly let down, as this film is very much a one - location thriller that relies more on character piece than big Statue Of Liberty lobbing monsters.

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.

The only audience for this is the crowd that can't get enough killer monster movies and they would be probably do better with a cable subscription than renting or buying the many entries in the genre.

The movie has its moments, but the overall result is an insult rather than a tribute to the classic monster.

The monsters are terrible CG... there's a scene in the movie centered around Shrek and the CG in it looked more realistic than the monsters.

B - movie sci - fi fans will revel in the references, and kids will enjoy the spectacular effects and funny creatures, but Monsters vs. Aliens, while a technical marvel, isn't much more than a pleasantly forgettable kid flick without its 3 - D.

Titled on screen as Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight), it's a Frankenstein monster of a movie in that Welles, as scripter, pieced together bits from no less than five Shakespeare plays.

The movie is less set in the horror genre, than a survival movie about a family, that happens to have monsters.

One of the elements setting «Infinity War» apart from far too many superhero movies is the introduction of a villain who's more than just another fire - breathing, multi-tongued monster - god hell - bent on destroying everything in its way while mouthing platitudes through some kind of filter that makes him sound like he watched «Star Wars» a thousand times and was always rooting for Darth Vader.

More concerned with cool robot fights than a world overrun by monsters, Pacific Rim Uprising is serviceable enough on its own terms, but can't help but feel like a pale imitation of the first movie.